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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9hbdpj wrote

Reply to comment by Krash412 in Firms stick to four-day week after trial ends by blitz9999

“You guys have never delivered better results than when you worked from home over the last two years.”
“We are happy to welcome you back into the office - and it is mandatory.”
This is pretty much verbatim what we were told, and the statements really did come in that exact order.

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Resies t1_j9iabwy wrote

Yeah that's what my company did. Hybrid, at least, but ...

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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9jed59 wrote

All of these execs just copy each other.
Zero creative thinking.
In days I’m forced to work from the office I simply leave my laptop in my car overnight.
I’m not spending 10 hours at the office only to pick back up at home.
Sure, I’ll work over the 16 hours I’m awake if I work from home, taking early morning and late night calls.
I’ll get my time back throughout the day in this case though!

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Resies t1_j9mv5jb wrote

Yeah, I'm not surprised they want us back in because there's a pretty large campus and right before the pandemic they dumped a lot of $ into renovations. We do all of our meetings in zoom though at our desks because logic

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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9mw6s1 wrote

They need to go back to business school and re-learn “sunk cost fallacy” haha

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Bioslack t1_j9inreu wrote

Same. Monday and Friday are still flexible though, you can work from home as long as you don't have anything going on that requires you to be on-site.

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Sirerdrick64 t1_j9jehig wrote

I still like the word “flexible.”
If it were truly flexible, it would be up to the manager and their team to determine the need to be on site.
In our case, it is like you explain and the number (although not specific days) of days is mandated.

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